Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-06-24

SON times the staiaci teS tosk slrai-'
forms pr. sIImtD.y wiIers tie Gs"pJlaG ~
the waller had not always 3cci on the SAIL
SPOT. Thus one huge mass, which must
have weighed hundred tons or So. was III
the form of a pulpit. beautifully fretted over
outside with what looked like lace. Others
resembled strange beasts, and on the SIDES
of the cave were fan-!ike ivory tracIngs,
such as the frost leaves Ii'cn pane
On she led US, straight to the top OF
the vast and silent cave, where we found
another doorway, not arched as the first
was, but square at the top, something like
the doorways of Egyptian temples.
Are ye prepared 10 enter the Place OF
Death?' asked Gagool, evidently with the
view of making us feel uncomfortable.
Lead on. Macdutf," said Good, soIemnly,
irving to look as though lie was not at all
alarmed as indeed did we all except FUula-
ia. who caught Good by the arm for proiec-
ton.
This is getting rather ghaS:Iy.' sad Sir
Henry, peeping into the dark doorway.
"Come on Quatermain-seni0re prtores.
Don't keep the old lady waiting" and lie
politely made way for me to lead the van,
for which inwardly did not bless him.
Come, get on. Old fellow" said Good,
"or we shall lose our fair guide"
Thus adjured. ! started down the passage.
and after about twenty PAGES fuun myself
in a gloomy apartment some forty feet long
BY thirty broad by thirty high, which In
some past age had evidently been followed,
by hand-labor, out of the mountain This
apartment was not n"arly so well lighted as
the vast st1Iactte ante-caye, and ut the first
glance all | could make out was Il massive
stone table running its lenIth, with cOlOs-
sal white figure at its head, and lIfe-Sizei
white figures all round it. Next | made odt
brown thing, seated on the table IN the cen
ter, and in another moment my eyes grew
accustomed TO the light. AMI | saw what all
these things were, and VS. IL Ing out of
it as hard as my legs would carry n" am
not nervous man, III general way, anu
very little troubled with sup Tstiuons, Of
which | have lived to see the folly; but !
am free TO own that that sight quit upset
me. and had it not been that Sir Henry
caught me by the collar and held me, l d0
honestly believe that IN another hycminutrs
/ should have been outside that stalaC lie
cave and that the promise of all the dia-
mnnds in Kimberly would not have induced
me to enter it again. But he h" me light,
So stopped because could mot help my
self But next second his eyes got accus-
TONED to tie h2iit, 700, ana n I"t Z" Oh me
AID gan Ia mop the persp IA ion off hIs
forehead. As for Good. he swore teeDly,
and Foulaia threw her arms round rs II eek
and shri"Ned.
Only GIgool chucklcd loud and long.
1t was Il CHASTITY sight. Thrr, at the cnl
of the long stone table. holding in hs s,iclr-
ton fingers Il great white spcar sat Death
himself shaped in the rm of a colossal
human skeleton, fifteen ic,t or more in
height. High above h head ne Arid the
spear, a. though in the acl to strike; one
bnuy hand rested on the stone table before
Inn. IN the position a man assumes on riS-
in, from his seat whilst his frtm. was bent
forward SO that ;Itr vrrtrhr:r II m, neck.
and .hr trimming. girmiu., S.u'I rni ,ctcd
toward us and hXrd its hnl."" clv-plIces
upon us. tae jaws 4 l!t;Ie open. :r III u-h it
were about to speak.
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